From the artist:

"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain’s highest mountain (@3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world’s best observatories.

The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know El Teide. I have to say this was one of the most exhausting trips I have done. There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.

A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/​g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32."

— Terje Sorgjerd

finally a howto-guide i can really use! tripping over dead camels while walking through sandstorms has always been pretty annoying.

yo really? how was gutting and dragging those guts across the desert necessary? Was there a sandstorm around? I refuse to believe that this was done for anything more than shock value and ratings.

What a tool, crawling inside a camel. lol

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Landslide

God all his shit sounds the same. He uses that same synth sound and modified his Sandstorm melody slightly. It's just as bad as Benny Benassi...

As a man whose been "being educated" for the last 22 years... yeah 22 years, no joke. (That's only 5 lesser than my age btw). This would be welcome entertainment even whilst "taking my education seriously." Seeing as how I foresee at least 3 more years of continued education (in various forms), I would LOVE to encounter this sort of insanity now and then.

Enjoy random craziness. It reminds you to take things a little less seriously and just LIVE while you learn. Living is what learning is about after all. Without a tad bit of craziness, college is just plain trade training. College is where you try to figure things out (in the long run). You need input in order to output.

BTW, that's "Darude - Sandstorm"... unfortunately.

>> ^thain:
Gotta say - it's a neat sentiment, but the library is absolutely the WRONG place for this. If you're in the library studying and a massive crowd of loud idiots suddenly comes in and breaks your concentration, you don't stop and say, "Wow, what an awesome gesture; I totally forgot that I need to relax sometimes!" Instead, you say, "What the F CK do these sons of whores think they're doing? F CK! I'm going to fail my test for sure now!" as you try desperately to keep concentrating on studying while the morons blast your eardrums out.
The library should be off-limits to this sort of shit, because the students in the library are trying to take their education and future seriously and haven't done anything to deserve being jarred out of their studies by an imbecilic mob.
Yes, I'm being curmudgeonly; yes, I'm too young to be curmudgeonly; no, I doubt my mind will change on this point.

>> ^J-Rova:
They didn't show what's in the case! What the hell is in the case???


The answer can be seen in this video: http://www.videosift.com/video/Darude-Feel-the-Beat-4-11

As soon as my power points recharge in 1 day and 16 hrs, I'm on it, mon ami. YTMND. (That's how the kids say it, right?)

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Promote these, kind sir.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-88-All-Cause-of-You-live

http://www.videosift.com/video/Beware-Cowboy-Sandstorm

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're a winner, loser:

http://horrorshow.videosift.com/talk/Horrorshow-Contest-Week-3-Its-a-dystopian-sweep-today

Promote these, kind sir.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-88-All-Cause-of-You-live

http://www.videosift.com/video/Beware-Cowboy-Sandstorm

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're a winner, loser:

http://horrorshow.videosift.com/talk/Horrorshow-Contest-Week-3-Its-a-dystopian-sweep-today

I got frustrated with this show pretty early on but stuck with it till I realized it had no plot direction beyond being creepy and off kilter. I was never moved to relate to the characters and wouldn't have cared if all of them wandered through a sandstorm and fell straight through to creepy, mysterious hell. Meh.
Nice intro though.

Lol, I was thinking they should be playing Sandstorm by Darude only to realize they are in fact listening to Trance. Nice.

*obscure
I'll never forget the first time I heard this track. It was late at night at the restaurant where I worked. My manager was doing his paperwork in the office upstairs and I was just having a beer after my shift was over. I went up to hang out with him- he had the radio on a really crappy commercial pop station. But somehow this track came on. Jimmy's other job was as a club DJ at a quite popular nightclub in Halifax (The Argyle Bar and Grill) and it was the first time he had heard it too. It blew us away. Neither of us could believe what we were hearing.

We both knew then that it would be the next Darude - Sandstorm. Played to death. But it was a fantastic moment.

Dead video replaced.

In reply to this comment by fissionchips:
Slight whiff of *dead in here.

My opinion: It's not moving. It's an oil refinery stack that is flaring and the camera is moving in relation to it. They are either walking or in a vehicle and what we are seeing is somewhat an optical illusion. The refinery stack itself is hidden in a sandstorm or smog. That is all - a gas burnoff vent.

This isn't the original song that they played on SNL. Looks like someone redubbed the skit. Here is a link to the original skit with the song Sandstorm by Darude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE1I7cTJlnE